Platform Architect Contract Job Trends in Horsham

Platform Architect
West Sussex > Horsham

The median Platform Architect daily rate in Horsham is £537, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Horsham 1.01% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 - -
West Sussex median daily rate £537 £469 -
% change year-on-year +14.50% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Horsham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Horsham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Horsham with a recognized job title 90 8 16
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 5 13
10th Percentile £322 £295 £223
25th Percentile £376 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £445
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -15.73% -34.56%
75th Percentile £488 £388 £550
90th Percentile £500 £635 £625
West Sussex median daily rate £438 £440 £450
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.22% -6.25%

Platform Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Horsham

For the 6 months to 22 August 2026, Platform Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Horsham region featuring Platform Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Budget Management
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Control
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Platform Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Horsham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) RStudio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Budget Management
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Control
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks